Brexit would throw up all manner of problems for the UK economy, including a rise in borrowing costs for homeowners.
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What happens when you find yourself homeless in the countryside?
The results of changing negative gearing are not as straight-forward as the government suggests.
Time to pick apart the rationale in doom-laden predictions for Britain’s second favourite topic of conversation.
There are far too many financial incentives keeping older Australians from choosing to downsize.
Real estate is favourably taxed in Australia, and it will continue to bite the housing market unless there is serious reform.
Wealthy commuters, retirees and second home owners are pricing locals out of the villages they grew up in.
The election campaign has so far skirted round the genuine dangers which face whoever is in Downing Street next month.
Rises in house prices and rents is far from uniform across the country. But how might this affect voters?
There is a nice weather map cartoon by Matt featuring the UK characterised by the varied intensity of dinner table house price conversation. And it is not just that we are obsessed with property values…
The news that the British housing market may have reached a turning point, with one forecast showing a price fall in 2015 and a drop in London prices for the first time in three years, will have been welcome…
As UK house prices continue to head sharply higher, Bank of England governor Mark Carney thinks they represent the biggest danger to the economic recovery in Britain. They certainly pose a stern test for…
Despite talk of a housing bubble in Australia, house prices have been flat in real terms over the past six years since the pre-financial crisis peak in December 2007. The weighted average of established…
The causes of the crisis that engulfed the global economy and its financial markets were not special or unique, even though the consequences were unprecedented for most of us. It is true that this crisis…
We often hear that Australia is facing a housing shortage that is driving up property prices, but what is the best way out of this predicament? In the final days of last year, National Housing Supply Council…
These days, most economic commentators in Australia sing from the same hymn sheet when it comes to discussing our economic prospects: while the ongoing gloom in the US and the outright deterioration in…
Mandatory energy efficiency ratings for houses have been in force in parts of the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe for some time and appear to have gained general acceptance. New homes in particular…
The Reserve Bank of Australia has cut the official cash interest rate by 25 basis points, from 4.75% to 4.5%, in a move matching most economists’ expectations. It was the first cut since April 2009. Westpac…
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Housing Economics and Director, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
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ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University
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Honorary Professor of Economics, UCL
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Professor of Economics, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor Australian Institute for Business and Economics, University of Queensland, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney
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Research economist, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, and Bankwest Research Chair in Economic Policy, Curtin University
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Professor Emeritus of Economic Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor, Centre of Policy Studies and the Impact Project, Victoria University
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Associate Professor of Project Management, RMIT University
